Due to advances in the understanding of the physics of failure, and in the technologies used to combat this failure; the literature on maintenance of unreliable systems is vast.
That shaping is ideally done in part by robust public power — the ability to spend to extend societal goods to everybody, to combat market failure, to check concentrated private economic power and so on.
Plasma levels of phenytoin, used to control epilepsy; digitalis, prescribed to combat heart failure; and lithium, used to moderate bipolar disorder (traditionally called manic-depressive disorder), should be monitored.
When the paper was published in November 2011, it was heralded as the first study in humans to test cardiac stem cell therapy to combat heart failure.
This model enlarges our arsenal of cardiac disease models, adding a valuable tool to understand cardiac pathophysiological remodeling processes and to develop therapeutic approaches to combat heart failure.
This should enable us to dissect pathways involved in TTN-based DCM and to develop novel therapeutic strategies to combat heart failure.
e-Health preparedness assessment helps the decision maker to be well-informed of deficient areas in preparedness, and therefore serves as a guide for preventive action to combat the failure to innovate.
Multiple description coding (MDC) was originally developed to combat channel failures and packet losses.
With his multiple deployments and wounds, Dr. Xenakis said, Sergeant Bales seems emblematic of bigger problems: an overstretched military battered by 11 years of combat; failures by the military to properly identify and treat its weary, suffering troops; and the thin line dividing "normal" behavior in war from what later is deemed "snapping".
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that he had a heart pump implanted last week to combat congestive heart failure.
Now the idea is to use it to combat acute heart failure.
